"My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness."

-- Anthony Doerr

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“Let us not forget the East Bank of the (River) Jordan, where seventy per cent of the inhabitants belong to the Palestinian nation.”
“Ronnie Barker was a straightforward man who had this extraordinary ability to make the nation laugh”
“All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, unaltered. The medium is the massage. Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments. All media are extensions of some human faculty - psychic or physical.”

Source : Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired
“The great purpose in life is to take your destiny out of the hands of others.”
“I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious.”
“If you ever find yourself walking a mile in my shoes, I hope that you would be at least be given the same choice.”

Source : "My right to death with dignity at 29" by Brittany Maynard, www.cnn.com. November 2, 2014.
“Ummm, there is not just one good thing about being a VJ, it is a package deal. It is a fun job and you get paid to party and have a good time and make people have a good time, which is great.”
“Prayer is the arena where our faith meets God's abilities.”

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